When life gives you frozen lemonade… April 21, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window It feels very special to find a few minutes during the day to make a quick, frozen treat.
7 Poetic Highlights from Our Week (7 Quick Takes) April 17, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Today, I’m trying 7 different poetic forms. I hope this is half as entertaining to read as it was to try to write them.
Up with the birds April 14, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window There’s something extraordinary about introducing the birds to the first light of the day.
Haiku Highlights from Easter (7 Quick Takes) April 10, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Sharing seven haiku written during the Octave of Easter
An Easter full of hope April 7, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window As I set our table for dinner, I thought of all the people who were part of our celebration even though they weren’t physically with us.
A sweet gift, a birthday, Easter foods, and spring snow (7 Quick Limericks) April 2, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window If you like limericks, this post is for you.
The finches’ first Easter April 2, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window This will be our pet birds’ first Easter with us.
Walking through Holy Week March 30, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Easter, Open Window We don’t need to begin the holiest week of the year at our best. It comes either way. And maybe we’re prepared to receive the risen Jesus in a way we can’t quite see.
My father’s cookies, a leftover bunny, and other discoveries (7 Quick Takes) March 26, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window ~1~ Can you go to your parents’ house and come home empty-handed? Me neither. I came home with a bag of my father’s homemade cookies, a copy of the newspaper with our wedding announcement in it, a few wedding photos I had forgotten about, and printouts of our online guestbook. I don’t even recall having […]
“Are you sitting down?” March 24, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window How we share information matters. That’s why people put so much care into marriage proposals and pregnancy announcements.
Half-birthdays for finches, corned beef, and that time I won an award (7 Quick Takes) March 20, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Our two baby finches celebrated their half-birthdays this week.
Missing out again March 18, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I met the anniversary of the last day of in-person school with eyes wide open—bracing myself for that weight. But I’m realizing that missing out on experiences for the second time might be harder.
